Big Rock Partners had cause for celebration this week, as its second senior living development opened in Florida, at a total cost of $82 million, or $343,000 per unit. Situated on nine acres (purchased in 2014 with the help of a $4.5 million loan from Sabra Health Care REIT) in the Walt Disney Company-developed master […]
Walker & Dunlop successfully structured an $82.077 million loan under Fannie Mae’s Green Rewards loan program, the first for a seniors housing property in the program’s history. Jeff Ringwald and Bill Jackson led the Walker & Dunlop team to structure a 10-year loan with two years of interest only and a 30-year amortization schedule to […]
A group of local owners in Colorado went to HUD to receive construction financing for their 137-unit senior living development in Monument, Colorado (between Denver and Colorado Springs). Having just broken ground last month, the community will feature 80 assisted living, 30 memory care (in two separate 15-unit neighborhoods) and 27 independent living units on […]
One size didn’t fit all at a senior care campus in Boise, Idaho when it decided to refinance its existing debt through two lending agencies: HUD and Fannie Mae. The property, which comprised a skilled nursing facility and an independent/assisted living community, had a single existing mortgage, but required two different lenders to fund two […]
Valstone Properties brought in Walker & Dunlop to refinance their portfolio of 12 memory care properties located throughout New Jersey and also provide funding for the acquisition/refinancing of two additional communities. Working with HUD, Kevin Giusti and Michael Vaughn
Success really can breed success. At least, that is the case for a skilled nursing facility in Lubbock, Texas that has already expanded once, and will soon grow again. Built in 2011 with 78 beds, all in private rooms, this skilled nursing facility added another 30 private beds and expanded its therapy gym by 1,300 […]
With the recent changes to HUD’s LEAN program, we wondered how long it would take to see a real impact on transaction volume with the agency. Well, Walker & Dunlop may not have closed an actual HUD transaction, but it did position itself well to do so in the future. For approximately $45 million, the […]
Not resting on its laurels following the recent $1.27 billion Freddie Mac financing it closed, Walker & Dunlop announced another financing, this time structuring a $68.2 million construction loan for a 318-unit senior living community to be built in Palm Beach County, Florida. The loan featured a floating rate of about 300 basis points over […]
As most of you have read recently, Walker & Dunlop closed its largest loan ever (almost double the size of its $670 million financing that the company closed earlier in 2015) in the form of a $1.27 billion seven-year adjustable-rate Freddie Mac loan secured by 78 Holiday Retirement independent living properties. The financing, led by […]
With all the construction going on today in the seniors housing and care industry, how are these developers financing their projects? Once you get past the longer lines and list of regulations, HUD has a few attractive options. Walker & Dunlop is one lender that has worked with HUD a good amount recently to fund […]